Right-living people are on the road to life, but those who chase evil are on the freeway to death.
GALATIANS 6:8 (MSG)
What a person plants, he will harvest. The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others—ignoring God!—harvests a crop of weeds. All he’ll have to show for his life is weeds! But the one who plants in response to God, letting God’s Spirit do the growth work in him, harvests a crop of real life, eternal life.
THE ESSENCE
You can plant seeds that produce toxic deadly plants or you can sow seeds that produce life-giving plants.
DAILY FODDER
Whether the metaphor involves roads or plants, the choice is clear. You have to choose the things of life or the things of death. Death is not so much a penalty but a consequence of choosing an existence apart from God and his ways. God graciously gives us a choice.
PRAYER
Thank you, Lord, for giving us a choice. I can choose to embrace you and your ways or I can choose to make my own way, embracing deadly characters and characteristics as I stumble along. I regret that I weave back and forth across lanes of traffic. I'm such a flake. Help me to completely embrace you and your ways. I'm trusting you to set me on the right path and to guide me. I can't make it on my own but you are life-giving. Amen.
Our Father in Heaven,
we hold your name in the highest regard.
Please come and establish your reign here on earth
so that everything that happens here will align
with what is happening in heaven.
and we’ll forgive those who have wronged us.
Shield us from the trials and temptations that come our way.
Lastly, we pray that you will protect us from all forms of evil. Amen.
